The Believer magazine, classic or dead? (Dead)
BREAKING: UNLV and @BlackMtnInst announced @believermag will publish its final issue, No. 139, in February/March 2022. "The Believer consumed a significant portion of BMI's resources... there was no path forward to continue publishing the magazine."Full release below. pic.twitter.com/5HyjTngFT5— Off the Record (@offtherecordnyc) October 19, 2021
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
What a bummer.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
This sucks.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
Budget context:
the poetry editor was Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown. & UNLV can't figure it out. i just want to point out that the UNLV football coach makes $625,000 a year &the Wolf Pack has $2.225 million tied into football coaching staff for the 2020 season. higher ed makes me so mad https://t.co/CvGthrt7dq— Patrycja (@jej_sen) October 19, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
The other shoe (is a dildo, apparently):
Hi, this is the new owner of The Believer. We purchased the website to keep the archives up. Our goal is to bring back the magazine, but since it was losing tens of thousands a month we need to get it making money using SEO then use that to bring back all the original writers.— The Sex Toy Collective (@ST_Collective_) May 9, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
a true literary clusterfuck
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
A little more context: McSweeney's was supposedly interested in buying it back, but UNLV sold it to the Sex Toy Collective instead.
Alright. Here’s what happened. I left The Believer in July, and a few months later its parent institution, the Black Mountain Institute based at UNLV, announced it was shuttering the magazine. It went up for sale. https://t.co/wB5TDrOrgD— Kristen Radtke (@KristenRadtke) May 10, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many writers are going to come back to The Believer (NSFW)
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
Introducing The Believer's audience (and a sizable percentage of its writers, probably) to the concept of sex can only be a good thing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link